Economics & Markets: * Yesterday, October 13, 2025, JPMorgan Chase introduced its Security and Resiliency Initiative, a $1.5 trillion plan over 10 years to support, finance, and invest in U.S. industries important for economic and national security. The program features up to $10 billion in direct investments and venture
Trending: * On October 10, 2025, the United States announced approval for the construction of a Qatari Emiri Air Force facility at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho, as stated by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in a meeting with his Qatari counterpart. The facility is intended to support a
Economics & Markets: * On October 10, 2025, the Bank of Russia announced it will permit domestic banks to conduct limited operations involving Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, marking a shift in the country's approach to digital assets. This decision includes allowing banks to handle crypto transactions and holdings, but
Trending: * On October 8, 2025, Israel and Hamas reached an agreement on the first phase of a Gaza ceasefire deal, as announced by U.S. President Donald Trump. The deal involves Hamas releasing approximately 20 to 50 hostages, including both living individuals and remains, in exchange for Israel freeing nearly
Trending: * Yesterday, October 07, 2025, a chemical accident occurred at the Schnarr Heinrich GmbH electroplating factory in Mainaschaff, near Aschaffenburg in Bavaria, Germany, when a large metal part fell into a 6,000-liter tank of nitric acid around 6:30 PM local time. This triggered a reaction that released a
Trending: * As of October 6, 2025, France is facing heightened political instability after the sudden resignation of Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu on the same day. He stepped down only hours after announcing his cabinet and less than a month after taking office. As a close associate of President Emmanuel Macron,
Weekend Recap: * On October 5, 2025, President Donald Trump authorized the deployment of 300 California National Guard members to Portland, Oregon, to assist federal law enforcement amid ongoing protests and security concerns in the city. This move came one day after U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee,
Power is not chaos. It is architecture — deliberate, structured, and played like a chessboard. Governments, corporations, and individuals all use this architecture, knowingly or not. Each has pieces: kings, queens, bishops, knights, rooks (castles), and pawns. Each piece has its range of motion, its strengths and weaknesses, its sacrifices and
Trending: * On October 2, 2025, a 35-year-old man named Jihad Al-Shamie, a Syrian immigrant who arrived in Britain at age six and later obtained citizenship, carried out an attack outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Manchester during Yom Kippur services. He drove a vehicle into a group of
Mind control is the deliberate shaping of human perception, attention, and behavior, refined over thousands of years. It has been wielded by individuals, priests, kings, generals, corporations, and governments to steer populations at every level — local, national, regional, and global. It is the most scalable power on Earth. Armies can
Trending: * As of October 1, 2025, the U.S. federal government entered a partial shutdown after Congress did not pass funding bills for the new fiscal year starting at midnight, resulting from disagreements between Republicans and Democrats on budget priorities. About 750,000 federal workers are impacted, with many placed
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